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Last season I ramped up my brugmansia hybridizing efforts using brugmansias with mutant and deeply serrated foliage.  The results of those...

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Sommer Gardens / Tuesday, November 1, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

Brugmansia Orange Zest x Genevieve

This Brugmansia Orange Zest x Genevieve seedling has been putting on quite a show lately. 

orangezestxgenevieve4.jpgThe unusual bloom form is unlike any I have seen before.  The inner corolla skirt is at least twice as wide as the outer skirt and it fans out about 8-9" across.  When you factor in the corolla teeth you are looking at a bloom that is nearly a foot wide!

orangezestxgenevieve4-2.jpgI grew out quite a few seedlings from this cross and several have been special enough to make their way into my watch zone.  So far all of them have had solid white blooms. A few have yet to bloom for the first time and I'm still holding out hope that at least one will show some color.

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